
FOOD STUFF
••• A chocolate shop is opening in Montecito (above).
••• Caruso’s introduced an à la carte lounge menu.
••• An update on the big Carpinteria multi-tenant complex, including Bettina’s offshoot.
••• Nobu is officially confirmed.
••• Satellite returned to full table service.
••• The Harbor Restaurant is now serving lunch.
••• SloDoCo donut shop opened.
••• Cannabis shops may be able to sell food and beverages.
••• Paradise pie update.
••• Soul Bites gets a reprieve.
••• Farm Cart Organics shut down its “farm box” service.
••• Cultured Abalone Farm tours.
••• New tasting room specializing in sparkling wine and wooden jigsaw puzzles.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: 1985 Montecito Tudor for $8.25 million; 1922 Wallace Neff house in the Hedgerow; 1970 four-bedroom with guest suite in Hope Ranch; adobe hacienda compound outside Los Olivos; midcentury fixer off San Ysidro Road; Samarkand farmhouse; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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TOURIST FOR A DAY
Yes, surrey! Four locals go behind the wheel of one of those contraptions that clog the bike path.
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Great 🥝 🇳🇿 travel reportage Eric ! Love all your details as well as extensive photos ! — Mark
So wonderful to have this new shop there in the El Paseo. Hand crafted ceramics, plants both real and dried, art, books, candles, decorative glassware,… — Miguel
Sad to see McCormick House close up shop to sell off. I've taken a few wonderful art classes there over the years. It is such… — JD
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